But he never mastered English, the friend said, or opened his own workspace.

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Of course, he might have been newly appointed, but his command of the English language was so bad that our friend was immediately suspicious.

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"He was my best friend, " says Huang in his American-accented English.

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"When I meet the first lyric from Woody, I falled in love with his lyrics it is a friend of me, " Wenzel says in halting English.

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The Saudi Gazette, an English-language daily, reported that Ali Al-Khawahir was 14 when he stabbed and paralyzed his best friend 10 years ago.

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